Beijing urges grassroots to follow the Chinese dream

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The education programme will be based on atheism, socialist theory and “the Chinese dream”Reuters

Jamie FullertonShanghai

Published at 12:01AM, July 4 2014

The Communist party is reaching out to millions of low-level members with an “ideological education” programme based on atheism, socialist theory and “the Chinese dream”. State media announced the five-year training scheme, saying the intention was to “strengthen the faith” at the grassroots.

The party has 86.7 million members, with the training aimed at border and rural areas plus ethnic minorities to draw them closer to Beijing’s principles. It will include classroom and online lessons and engagement through Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

It said the aim was to “vitalise the whole party through promoting the spirit and the awareness